Marcel Proust

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• Paris Breaks in the 20th Arrondissement

  
  Paris Breaks — Authority: 100
  Paris Breaks to the 20th Arrondissement Ok, the idea of going on Paris breaks in order to hang out entirely in the 20th is only semi-serious, it would be a bit like visiting London in order to spend all your time in Leytonstone or Newham, but that’s not quite as mad as it sounds. You’d be surprised at the number ...
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• Marcel Prousts obituary

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  As part of their From the archive series, The Guardian newspaper has re-published their report of the death of French writer Marcel Proust. A fascinating glimpse into the reputation Proust had created in 1920s Europe: Originally published on 20 November 1922 (From our Correspondent.) PARIS, SUNDAY. Marcel ...
  1 week ago

• From the archive: Marcel Proust: Death of well-known French novelist

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Originally published on 20 November 1922 (From our Correspondent.) PARIS, SUNDAY. Marcel Proust, foremost of "young novelists" of France, died yesterday. He was fifty years old and had been in poor health from childhood. It is probable that he was as well known abroad, especially in Holland and England, where ...
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• Proust Was Right

  
  MissTheda.com — Authority: 150
  We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, ...
  1 week ago

• Now Unloading | Yves Saint Laurents Country Estate

  
  The Moment — Authority: 709
  The contents Yves Saint Laurents country estate are up for auction in a four-day sale that begins today.
  1 week ago

• "No one can describe a taste" - Why?

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 494
  Via Andrew Sullivan , Jonah Lehrer channels Proust to explore why smells (and tastes) are so emotionally laden: Why is smell so sentimental? One possibility, which is supported by this recent experiment, is that the olfactory cortex has a direct neural link to the hippocampus. In contrast, all of our other senses ...
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• Within a Budding Grove: Madame Swann at Home: Nanowrimo

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 134
  Here I am nearly halfway through this years Nanowrimo and Ive cracked open the second volume of In Search of Lost Time , Within a Budding Grove ( A lombre des jeunes filles en fleurs ) and I am laughing at the way the two big projects in my life come together. Marcel (the protagonist) is back to narrate the ...
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• Writing Fears

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 127
  by Jean Henry Mead The single most important drawback to a writer’s success is fear. Fear of criticism from one’s peers or condemnation from the general public. Fear of negative reviews or of spending a year or more writing a book that doesn’t sell. Fear of hiring an agent who won’t send your book to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Germaine Greer Disses Proust – Walk the Dog Instead

  
  Book Case — Authority: 118
  You have to love Germaine Greer when she’s at her best – sarcastic, caustic, pretty bloody funny. In the Guardian this week, she rants about what a waste of time it is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time:“If you haven’t read Proust, don’t worry. This lacuna in your cultural development you do ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foucault on Writing and Death

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  As part of his highly influential 1979 essay, What is an Author?, French theorist Michel Foucault reflects on the symbiosis of writing and death in literature: [...] The second theme is even more familiar: it is the kinship between writing and death. This relationship inverts the age-old conception of Greek narrative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Author, author: Michael Holroyd

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The past, after all, is not a foreign country: they do things much the same there. When my first book was published almost 50 years ago, I was sent something that might more accurately have been described as a retreat than an advance: and so it is again for many of us following the credit crisis. In 1960 I was busy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Book Finds

  
  Terra Garden — Authority: 119
  I read about Friday Finds on http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/ and want to take part in sharing a book that Ive "found."Please leave comments here on a book you are excited to be reading or plan to read so I can get more ideas for my TBR list :) I am delighted to begin reading "Swanns Way", which is volume 1 of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swanns Way: Place-Names: Thomas OMalley

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 134
  I know I said Id take two more weeks to read Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ) but the last section was only sixty pages and I just couldnt wait to finish. Next weeks post will start in with volume two, In a Budding Grove . In "Place-Names" the novel switches gears, moving away from a third person ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stuff Ive Been Reading: A Monthly Column (10/09)

  
  Outgoing Signals — Authority: 119
  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--Jane Austen The problem I had with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isnt the fact that some hack added zombies into a classic; my problem is one of logic and storytelling. According to the book, the zombie uprisin... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 weeks ago

• Literary Rags: Writer and Philosopher T-Shirts

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  Shopping website  Literary Rags offers browsers a chance to purchase T-shirts with the faces of renowned writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers emblazoned on the chest. As if that wasnt enough, each shirt comes complete with a distinctive quote from the said writer/thinker positioned on the back. Its nice to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Review: Swanns Way: Swann in Love: Saffron

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 134
  Im on my 18th week of reading Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ). Im up to page 540. In two more weeks, I will have finished this book! The first volume of The Search for Lost Time is wrapping up. Things between Charles Swann and Odette are coming to a head. Swanns getting suspicious of Odettes intentions, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Visualize Proust

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 135
  not quite as simple as The All-England Summarize Proust Competition (below), but an accurate visual overview of A Remembrance of Things Past via Mlle. Ames blog take my word for it as not-a-scholar-of-his-works-by-any-means-but-a-devoted-rea... Read and post comments | ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10/29/09

  
  Almost Daily Quote — Authority: 119
  In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. - Marcel Proust
  4 weeks ago

• Swanns Way: Swann in Love: Cordelia Chase

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 134
  Im on my 17th week of reading Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ). Im up to page 510. In three more weeks, I will have finished this book! Much of the thirty pages from 480 to 510 are centered on the Princess and her friendship with Charles Swann. The Princess is written as a shallow but powerful woman. What ...
  4 weeks ago

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